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Ok so I DID IT! I moved from TROMjaro Gnome to TROMjaro XFCE. I will make an article, maybe tomorrow, about how anyone can do it.
Look...I do a lot on my laptop. I have at least 4 workspaces and an extra display, 20TB of files, millions of them in number; I sync my servers with my drives (millions of files) daily; then backup them to other drives; I work on a huge documentary in Kdenlive (project file is over 1.2TB in size); I build custom linux images (tromjaro) and need to test images all the time; I test linux apps for our app library so I have hundreds installed; I sync my photos over 3 drives and a phone, and all merge into 1 single gallery...I have chats and emails, 5 firefox windows each with tens of tabs; I sync files via syncthing with my friends... Trust me I do a lot. I use symlink folders/files and so much more.
So to do the switch and reinstall another OS is crazy to me. Need to make all of this maze work. And I managed to do that in some 5-6 hours or less. I take that as a proof that linux is awesome. And if I could do it, without using the terminal basic
... Show more...Ok so I DID IT! I moved from TROMjaro Gnome to TROMjaro XFCE. I will make an article, maybe tomorrow, about how anyone can do it.
Look...I do a lot on my laptop. I have at least 4 workspaces and an extra display, 20TB of files, millions of them in number; I sync my servers with my drives (millions of files) daily; then backup them to other drives; I work on a huge documentary in Kdenlive (project file is over 1.2TB in size); I build custom linux images (tromjaro) and need to test images all the time; I test linux apps for our app library so I have hundreds installed; I sync my photos over 3 drives and a phone, and all merge into 1 single gallery...I have chats and emails, 5 firefox windows each with tens of tabs; I sync files via syncthing with my friends... Trust me I do a lot. I use symlink folders/files and so much more.
So to do the switch and reinstall another OS is crazy to me. Need to make all of this maze work. And I managed to do that in some 5-6 hours or less. I take that as a proof that linux is awesome. And if I could do it, without using the terminal basically, then anyone can. Click and do.
So basically XFCE is super fast and really cool. Only a few things annoyed/annoy me:
1 - The fact that workspaces extend to external displays so you get a fuck ton of workspaces that are kinda useless. That's not how I work. I had to come with a solution for that. It is not that great but is fine. Drag and drop windows between workspaces is something I may not do anymore because of this. But I came up with a solution: using mouse gestures. I have 4 workspaces and I setup it so that when I draw a number between 1 and 4 over a window, it will move it to that particular workspace. That's crazy fast and so cool. Say I have a window in front of my screen and I wanna move it to workspace 4. I draw a 4. Done!
This is done via the Window Tweak Manager and Mouse Gestures. No terminal and such.
2 I am annoyed by the fact that Thunar, the file manager, sucks when it comes to searching files. Good news is that they have kinda fixed that so I am waiting for the update.
I think that's it. The rest seems great. I am so tired hahaah...
Also TROM II project file seems good. All working. Cannot wait to get back to work on it! Now with global menus and HUD. How fucking awesome!
#tromlive
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